What was the last movie you watched?

[BathTub]

You did? I can't find it.

[Hebs]

You did? I can't find it.

Whoops - it was 7 pages ago, on page 3. 

[BathTub]

Ah, heh, seems the search only returns the latest result per thread not every result.

I thought it was ok, certainly not what I was used to. I knew I recognised the asian actress who turned out to from Much Music which I used to watch years ago.

[Hank_Peters]

I watched "Across The Universe", fell asleep, and walked out halfway through the film. First time that's ever happened.

[mrbasehart]

Feast of Love: Saw this at work yesterday.  Dull, with some interesting nudity thrown in.

Lord of the Rings: The Ralph Bakshi version.  While I liked some things about it - some of the more elaborate effects, John Hurt as Aragorn - it pales in comparison to the recent ones.  Isaac is probably cursing me right now. 

On Deadly Ground: Seagal directed this eco-action movie, which is pretty routine stuff, apart from the last few minutes, which are funnily like An Inconvenient Truth.  Lots of preaching about the environment when he's just blown up a massive oil refinery.  God knows what Michael Caine was doing in this.  Oh, and Billy Bob Thornton appears briefly as "henchman who dies elaborately #7". 

Death Wish II: Good lord.  Now I remember why I stay away from Michael Winner.  An ugly, ugly movie.

[RoninFox]

I watched "Across The Universe", fell asleep, and walked out halfway through the film. First time that's ever happened.

That almost happened to me a month ago just watching an "Across The Universe" trailer.  Do we really need this movie out there?  Can't people just buy a friggin Beatles's album and listen to it at home?

[Tripe]

On Deadly Ground: Seagal directed this eco-action movie, which is pretty routine stuff, apart from the last few minutes, which are funnily like An Inconvenient Truth.  Lots of preaching about the environment when he's just blown up a massive oil refinery.  God knows what Michael Caine was doing in this.  Oh, and Billy Bob Thornton appears briefly as "henchman who dies elaborately #7". 

Greatest! Segal! Movie! Ever!

"What does it take, to change the heart of man?"

The review of Across the Universe in my local arts paper started with "you don't have to love the Beatles to hate Across the Universe" That review was written for me

It's a bleeding Jukebox Musical, will they be filming Mama Mia next?

[mrbasehart]

There's a really hilarious speech delivered by R Lee Emery towards the end of that movie too, it goes something like:  "We're not dealing with the student here, we're dealing with the professor! He's the guy who if you dropped in the middle of the antarctic with a pair of bikini briefs and a toothbrush, would turn up a day later in your living room in a suit and a handful of pesos!"

Seagal is the action movie guy I'd least like to mess with.  Some of his fight scenes - when he did them, as opposed to the 50 pounds lighter stunt double he employs now - look horribly painful. 

[BathTub]

The Bourne Ultimatum. A fun flick, I like how they twisted around the end of the second one.

[MrTorso]

best movie in the series right there, bar none!

With the best commentary track too. I am glad the Blu-Ray version included it as well.

[Bob]

Dolemite!

[RVR II]

Dolemite!

AGAIN?!

How Many Times you gonna watch that??
(Like I should talk.. I watched 'Better Off Dead' Again Last Night )

[GregMcduck]

So says the man who eats and breathes Dune.

[mrbasehart]

A few more today;

The Cheap Detective: Someone on the Comedy List talked about this one while we were discussing Murder by Death, and I checked it out (okay, I downloaded it!).  I thought it was funnier than MYB, purely because I love all of the Marlowe/Spade movies made in the 40s and it just nailed 'em.  Falk was great with his semi-impression of Bogart, and any film that has Ann-Margret sashaying around in gold lame is okay with me.  

The Glimmer Man: The Seagal movies continue, this one leavened by a bit (just a bit, though) of humour in the form of Keene Ivory Wayans.  I actually found On Deadly Ground better directed, as the fight scenes in this one are cut to shit, not really letting Seagal an opportunity to show his stuff.  He just throws people around in this one.  I gave myself bonus points for correctly identifying a frighteningly young Nikki Cox and Alexa Vega in small roles.

Tunes of Glory: A teriffic drama about two very different Colonels at a Scottish military training camp.  Alec Guinness is brilliant as the ebullient, but sinister Jock Sinclair.  John Mills does a great job with probably the more difficult of the roles, as a scarred and highly strung Colonel.  Susanna York's first film, apparently.

Punishment Park: A fake documentary made in the 1970s which puts forth the idea that "subversives" (hippies and draft dodgers) are sentenced to either life imprisonment or 4 days at Punishment Park, where, if they evade the police force and national guard in training and travel 60 miles over open desert to a flag they can gain their freedom.  It's nicely put together, looking authentic, with some nice performances from the mostly amateur cast.  It does completely polarize political opinion though, and the director really never gives the police or "the man" a sympathetic voice, preferring to treat them with about as much respect as John Ford did the Indians in his westerns.  

[mrbasehart]

basehart's movie updates part-30 or whatever:

The Maltese Falcon: I've seen this film a LOT and it's still one of my favourites.  Pitch perfect performances from everyone but especially from Bogie, who manages to absolutely nail the anti-hero.  I bought the two-disc set a little while ago which has the other versions of the movie on it so I also saw -

The Maltese Falcon:  This is the first adaptation of Hammett's novel, and while quite faithful to the text, is utterly inferior to the later one.  Ricardo Cortez (who looks uncannily like Sean Patrick Flannery) comes across more as a sleazy lounge singer rather than a hard-bitten detective, and the acting is the sort of which you find often in early sound films - very stilted and theatrical.  Much more fun was -

Satan Met a Lady: The second adaptation of the novel, but quite changed from the original.  The tone has the casual gaiety (though not the laughs) of the Thin Man movies.

Once:  A beautiful and intimate Irish musical drama (yeah, you read that right) about a man and a woman who meet and decide to record some songs together.  That's it for plot, but the real star of the show is the music.  Folksy, sad, and slightly bitter, they give us more information about the characters than any of the spoken dialogue.  The two leads are good, and wrote and performed the music themselves - I think they've released albums and stuff, which I will definitely check out in the near future.

Ace in the Hole: I've only got a few Wilder films left to watch, so seeing a new one is kind of a special occassion.  This one is one of his most cynical, about a ruthless reporter desperate to get back to the big papers and exploits a man trapped in a cave to do so.  Douglas is excellent, and the attitude of the film is spot on, contrasting the plight of the man inside the cave with the cheap spectacle outside. 

I'm sure they'll be more soon.